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School: Bog-fhód (Buckode) (roll number 3736)

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Buckode, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
Muiris Mac Gearailt
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0191, Page 116

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    over the road expecting to see all the hay on it but instead, there was not a grain moved.
    Jim Mc Gowan lived in the townland of Gortnasillagh, Kinlough, Co. Leitrim about seventy years ago. One fine morning as he was going to a market in Ballyshannon with a pig, he met the fairies carrying a corpse to their graveyard which was situated beside the fort Jim turned his horse and cart up Mathew Clancy's lane, Gortnasillagh, Kinlough, Co. Leitrim and let the fairies pass by.
    As they were passing by the lane, they said that Jim Mc Gowan and Hugh Clancy
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. place-space-environment
      1. legendary and spiritual places (~158)
        1. fairy forts (~5,616)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Bernard Mc Gowan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Aghaderrard West, Co. Leitrim
    Informant
    Daniel Mc Gowan
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    72
    Address
    Gorteendarragh, Co. Leitrim